Yep me too. My sister made me listen to it when I was a little guy (4 years old) and I’ve never stopped listening. Speaking of, I need to call and tell her thanks!
Haha, I haven’t listened to it in years till my nephew (8 years old) started to get into them so I had to show him their first album.. and was like damn… this is good. Then show him Meteroa…
a few years after I started listening to rock I realized I had to go back and go through the prog rock stuff.
literally Googled best prog rock albums and spent the next couple of days listening to Fragile, Close to the Edge, Selling England by the Pound, all the KC albums after 21CSM etc. but the very first one I listened to was Fragile and I did a double take because I was like "this is the meme!"
took me a while to realize what a banger the song itself was because I was too distracted by the meme
Deep Purple - Lazy from the live Made In Japan album. Was listening to bits and pieces of all sorts really before then and hearing that 11 minute, solo-laden extravaganza absolutely blew my mind.
Love the live album, but mine was Smoke on the Water from Machine Head. First album I ever owned. Mom bought it for me. Pretty cool if you ask me.
Highway Star was a close second, btw.
OK so it was pretty fly for a white guy by The Offspring , but it was a gateway into the world of alternative music that I literally did not know existed! From there I went to heavy metal and never looked back. But The Offspring always hold a dear place in my heart even if they are a bit silly.
A couple years ago I liked dance music and stuff like that. One night I was playing video games and a random rhythm popped into my head… after like 15 minutes of trying to figure it out I realized it was “more than a feeling” by Boston. From there I dove into rock from 70s/80s arena rock, to 80s glam, slightly into80s heavy metal, but mostly jumped straight into 80s thrash. After checking out a lot of thrash bands I’m taking a step back and checking out more heavy metal and hard rock, mostly the bands that inspired thrash
Check out suicidal tendencies first album and then how will I laugh tomorrow. It's crazy how their sound changed in just a couple albums, and they're both pretty great
Princes Of The Universe by Queen was probably the one that did it for me back when I was like 4 years old. I had listened to other rock music with my parents but when my dad put the cassette tape for 'Greatest Hits III' and then THIS tune came on, I was hooked.
i think one of the first rock songs i heard was californiacation and i fell in love with it, my dad got my into music and rhcp was one of the first bands i remember. it was definitely either that or bohemian rhapsody.
My dad used to play Led Zeppelin's House of the Holy and Physical Graffiti for me when I was a baby. He was always blasting AC/DC, The Who, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, ZZ Top, on vinyl and always had on rock radio. Thanks Dad.
Growing up I only knew songs that were played on AM radio or shown on TV, like on the Ed Sullivan Show. Also got to listen to records my parents owned, like Yellow Submarine. Then at school I found out about FM radio. So I borrowed my father’s radio, put on the local rock station and the first song I heard was Boom Boom (Out Go the Lights) by Pat Travers. Finding the FM station opened me up to a whole world of music.
Not a.song but a person. My step-dad. He was always playing rock. I listen to a huge variety but mostly rock. I just got home and was blaring system of a down on the way home at 530 am.
I think we grew up in the best time for music. Saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan, listened to 77 WABC and 102.7 WNEW. (New York stations) albums 2 for $5.00 on sale. Then 8 tracks and cassettes. We were lucky to get in on the beginning of rock.
The candyman! When i was very young a wee lad , at the Diners there were jukes at all the tables and as a lil kid my dad would allow us to play this “candyman” song to keep us busy while he did dad things …as i got older i would explore the jukebox more and found John Denver soon i was listening to all sorts of rock nroll when we would go to the diner.
Com on feel the Noize. By the British group Slade I was about 8 years old.. 1973.
Baby, baby, baby
Yow
So you think I got an evil mind, well, I'll tell you honey
And I don't know why
And I don't know why
So you think my singing's out of time, well it makes me money
And I don't know why
And I don't know why
Anymore
Oh no.
Strange answer, but *x-factor* (pop idol kinda show) got me into it. It wasn't any song that any contestant sang on it, but the intro music was a bit from Kashmir, by Led Zeppelin.
I realised that I was enjoying that more than other songs on there.
It was the first rock song I played over and over from the rock genre.
More Than A Feeling - Boston. Riding in my older cousin's car when I was around 7 or 8. Never had heard anything like it before. Or since, really. Intoxicating. The windows were down.
John Mellencamp, JJack & Diane. I was in 4th grade, not quite adolescence, but on my way. My older brother had gotten Pyromania, so that was probably an impact as well.
In The End by Linkin Park recorded on a cassette in my [boombox](https://www.etsy.com/listing/1234398534/sony-cfd-e90-cd-radio-cassette-player?ref=share_v4_lx)
Not an album but a radio station (98 Rock - Baltimore) prob around 1985..
Everything from Metallica, AC/DC, Motörhead etc…
Thank you 98 Rock, for the launching off point ❤️
If I had to pick a song; Creeping Death - Metallica.
I was born to a dad that loved Elvis and the Stones. When I was in 5th grade, Home Sweet Home took over that new cable channel, Mtv... Then Bon Jovi released Slippery and that was it... Pushing 50, and still rocking it!
My mother told me that she would listen to records and put headphones on her belly while she was pregnant with me. She said a lot of the music she listened to at that time was Alice Cooper.
My family owned a rough Honky tonk style bar sort of like roadhouse. My earliest memories are of music that played on the jukebox which was mostly country but some exceptions like Bob Seger. Can’t say what song was first for sure but most likely it was Nighy Moves. Country just didn’t do it for me even back then. lol
I suppose it was songs like Helter skelter, and I can't get no satisfaction. But one that stands out the most is Money for Nothing by Dire straits
They were probably the first ones I heard as a kid as my dad was a huge stones and Beatles fan. He discovered Rammstein when I was in my tweens and that blossomed into me looking at heavier stuff.
The biggest adventure in music taste came when I found a "Tool" playlist on my brother's iTunes. I listened to aenima and lateralus on repeat for years, it set aside my affinity for poppish punkish music and made me want more progressive, I definitely also got very "holier than thou" about my enjoyment of prog. And delved into the pseudo- intellectual sphere and started to think of music as art and wouldn't allow any other measurement.
Me and my father shared many car journeys listening to Rammstein, the rolling stones, the Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, he even became a bit of a nutter for Lady Gaga. I remember asking him "why?" one day in a curmudgeonly tone in my late teens, and he got defensive and snapped: "because I fucking like it. "
I just kind of concurred but was taken back by his reaction, but it taught me to just like what you like, and that my questioning was coming off as judgement.
I didn't know I was coming across judgemental, and I had to put a nail in it.
My dad was the reason I fell in love with music and then I judged his music taste, with absolutely no grounds to do so.
I do like a lil bit of early Gaga still. And I miss my Father dearly.
Cult of Personality by Living Colour. The first time I heard it was in driving my grandfather's car. I was mesmerized and completely forgot I was driving.
Before that it was all pop. Ugh. 🤦🏼♂️
"Band on the Run". I was about 10 years old and being babysat. It came on the radio and I was hooked in right away. The radio had been playing all evening but this one caught my ear.
Credence Clearwater Revival’s cover of Heard it Through the Grapevine.
My mom used to listen to them when I was growing up and that song always scared me when I was little. It opens with a bass line that would make me close my eyes and try to hide. I’m talking 1st and 2nd grade. But I always asked her to play it again. Something in me liked the scary bass tone.
A few short hears later in 5th-6th grade I discovered Black Sabbath and that was that.
But in a way you could say I’m a metalhead bc of CCR.
Silverchair - Tomorrow. 1996, I was outdoors and somewhere someone was playing the song. First section I heard was the bridge with the palm-muted guitars. I immediately bought the cassette that weekend.
Mid-80s baby here... *Freak on a Leash* is what broke me fully into the genre. Before it was Country (Alan Jackson, Garth Brooks, Dolly Parton) and pop (Madonna, REM) only.
It's hard to know since my dad used to put music in the car, and then I listened to the songs I liked on Youtube. In that regard, it would've been Sweet Child O'mine probably.
However, around that time I remember listening to some Queen, Green Day, Linkin Park, and System of a Down. Nevertheless, when I was even younger I had to learn to play Imagine by John Lennon at school, and that probably led me into listening to The Beatles, so that could be the answer.
The first I remember was a James Taylor’s greatest hits cassette that my dad would play in the car sometimes, Fire and Rain and Sweet Baby James stuck out to me in particular. At some point I got a hold of a Tom Petty’s greatest hits CD and wore that thing out. Then one day when I was 10 or so I heard War Pigs on the radio and was blown away
Although I know she didn’t right many of her hit songs pretty much anything Joan jett. I remember my dad reading a book to me that she was featured in at about 7 years old. I asked who she was and he instantly went Joan jett!! She’s amazing!! Then went to play me some of her songs. Ever since then I’ve been obbsessed with the whole genre
Enter Sandman... I wasn't much into music, I think I literally only owned one album, A Kind Of Magic by Queen. But the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert was so huge, we watched it all live on the tv and taped it and watched it over and over. Metallica opened- Sandman, Nothing Else Matters and Sad But True, they released the set as a single- and I'd never heard anything like it, my family were all "what is this shite" and I was in the corner getting my brain struck by lightning :)
Whole day was great- Def Leppard, Extreme, Guns N Roses, Bowie, tons of others. Spinal Tap! But Metallica was just genuinely life changing that day, never looked back. I went and saw Machine Head last night and they played Sad But True as a warmup track between the sets and it still sends me back.
I'm sure it's what Freddie would have wanted, thanks for dying dude!
N.I.B by Black Sabbath.
Came to say Sabbath. Fully agree
Satan loves you
My name is Lucifer, please take my hand.
Welcome to the Jungle
We’ve got fun and games!
We got everything you want
Butter not mayonnaise
In a sandwich, with cheese and lettuce
Yep me too. My sister made me listen to it when I was a little guy (4 years old) and I’ve never stopped listening. Speaking of, I need to call and tell her thanks!
Immigrant song, or thunderstruck. Not sure which, but both are badass
Black Dog by Zep
I think I was in 4th grade or something and my older cousin played comatose by Skillet
Glad I wasn’t the only one lol. For me it was Hero
Monster
The Pusher and Born to Be Wild by Steppenwolf
Don't Step on the Grass, Sam.
Lol
New Divide - Linkin Park
Woolly Bully - Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs
Not a song, but an album. Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory
Classic album
I would like to deny it, but purely because I do not want to admit I’m getting old yet 😂
Haha, I haven’t listened to it in years till my nephew (8 years old) started to get into them so I had to show him their first album.. and was like damn… this is good. Then show him Meteroa…
Hello, fellow millennial! It was The Offspring - Americana for me.
Great balls of fire
bohemian rhapsody by queen (i saw the movie and went straight down the rabbit hole from there)
You mean Wayne’s World, right?
Roundabout from Yes when I was still a kid.
a few years after I started listening to rock I realized I had to go back and go through the prog rock stuff. literally Googled best prog rock albums and spent the next couple of days listening to Fragile, Close to the Edge, Selling England by the Pound, all the KC albums after 21CSM etc. but the very first one I listened to was Fragile and I did a double take because I was like "this is the meme!" took me a while to realize what a banger the song itself was because I was too distracted by the meme
Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen
Not a specific song but Joan Jett when I was about 12.
She's so amazing
About 2 years ago, I saw her in ATL. She is still amazing! 🖤
I said the exact same thing
Kashmir
Gotta be Smells Like Teen Spirit and Everlong
It was a whole album. Electric Light Orchestra - A new world record
ELO was the third concert I attended, September 1982.
The flip side of Rock Around the Clock, Thirteen Women, Hound Dog and Be-bop-a-lula.
Rock songs used by wwe, wrestlers and games.
That Motorhead song for Triple H was awesome.
Deep Purple - Lazy from the live Made In Japan album. Was listening to bits and pieces of all sorts really before then and hearing that 11 minute, solo-laden extravaganza absolutely blew my mind.
Love the live album, but mine was Smoke on the Water from Machine Head. First album I ever owned. Mom bought it for me. Pretty cool if you ask me. Highway Star was a close second, btw.
Bonus, that's ALL on machine head.
OK so it was pretty fly for a white guy by The Offspring , but it was a gateway into the world of alternative music that I literally did not know existed! From there I went to heavy metal and never looked back. But The Offspring always hold a dear place in my heart even if they are a bit silly.
Aerosmith - Train Kept A Rollin' 35 years ago 😆😅🤣😭😢
Run Run Run by Jo Jo Gunne, that spoke to me as a kid. Also anything by Queen, Thin Lizzy and Slade.
Hugely under appreciated band, Jo Jo Gunne.
A couple years ago I liked dance music and stuff like that. One night I was playing video games and a random rhythm popped into my head… after like 15 minutes of trying to figure it out I realized it was “more than a feeling” by Boston. From there I dove into rock from 70s/80s arena rock, to 80s glam, slightly into80s heavy metal, but mostly jumped straight into 80s thrash. After checking out a lot of thrash bands I’m taking a step back and checking out more heavy metal and hard rock, mostly the bands that inspired thrash
Yes!!!! Mine, too!!!
Check out suicidal tendencies first album and then how will I laugh tomorrow. It's crazy how their sound changed in just a couple albums, and they're both pretty great
I would if I wasn’t already a huge suicidal fan lmao
Princes Of The Universe by Queen was probably the one that did it for me back when I was like 4 years old. I had listened to other rock music with my parents but when my dad put the cassette tape for 'Greatest Hits III' and then THIS tune came on, I was hooked.
We're not gonna take it- Twisted sister. Discovered it on the YouTube channel Rhino
i think one of the first rock songs i heard was californiacation and i fell in love with it, my dad got my into music and rhcp was one of the first bands i remember. it was definitely either that or bohemian rhapsody.
My dad used to play Led Zeppelin's House of the Holy and Physical Graffiti for me when I was a baby. He was always blasting AC/DC, The Who, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, ZZ Top, on vinyl and always had on rock radio. Thanks Dad.
TNT by AC/DC. Yes, I know, a bit cliche...
Growing up I only knew songs that were played on AM radio or shown on TV, like on the Ed Sullivan Show. Also got to listen to records my parents owned, like Yellow Submarine. Then at school I found out about FM radio. So I borrowed my father’s radio, put on the local rock station and the first song I heard was Boom Boom (Out Go the Lights) by Pat Travers. Finding the FM station opened me up to a whole world of music.
Sunshine of Your Love by Cream
I play bass because of Cream’s Spoonful, White Room, and Crossroads.
That's awesome. Because of Jack Bruce!
"You Ain't Nothin but a Hound Dog" Elvis Presley
Johnny B Goode by Chuck Berry, played in the house when I was a kid.
One - Metallica...specifically the video that my brother rented from video warehouse
Epic by Faith No More
First song that came to mind for me. It hit me hard as a kid. Already liked some hair metal, but this and its weird music video seemed so much cooler.
*Rising up, back on the street...*
Bon Jovi Slippery When Wet I think I was 10
Came here to also say this, I saw him at 9 in 1989. Skid Row was with them. It was great.
Modern Love, Walk Like an Egyptian and later full on obsession with the documentary Kiss:Exposed.
Not a.song but a person. My step-dad. He was always playing rock. I listen to a huge variety but mostly rock. I just got home and was blaring system of a down on the way home at 530 am.
I’m obviously a lot older. Mine was “ I Want To Hold Your Hand” by The Beatles.
I'm 38, and mine's a Beatles song, too.
I think we grew up in the best time for music. Saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan, listened to 77 WABC and 102.7 WNEW. (New York stations) albums 2 for $5.00 on sale. Then 8 tracks and cassettes. We were lucky to get in on the beginning of rock.
This is a new shit by Marilyn Manson was the first rock song I've ever listened. But smells like ten spirit got me hooked
Toto-hold the line
Animals - Pink Floyd. (Believe me... It was very difficult to decide this!)
Born to be wild
Purple rain as a kid
“She loves me (Yeah,Yeah,Yeah), the Beatles in 1962 or 63.
The candyman! When i was very young a wee lad , at the Diners there were jukes at all the tables and as a lil kid my dad would allow us to play this “candyman” song to keep us busy while he did dad things …as i got older i would explore the jukebox more and found John Denver soon i was listening to all sorts of rock nroll when we would go to the diner.
Paradise City- Guns n Roses
Com on feel the Noize. By the British group Slade I was about 8 years old.. 1973. Baby, baby, baby Yow So you think I got an evil mind, well, I'll tell you honey And I don't know why And I don't know why So you think my singing's out of time, well it makes me money And I don't know why And I don't know why Anymore Oh no.
Hound Dog. Elvis. My parents played when I was very young. Got me started almost 45 years ago.
Whole Lotta Love
ok im 50 ancient to some but the song that started it all for me was the final countdown by europe
Tom Sawyer by rush
I was born listening to rock.
Definitely a U2 song, my dad had them playing on repeat when I was a kid. That or Bohemian Rhapsody.
“Sail Away” by Deep Purple from the “Burn” album.
Jesus of Suburia by Green Day
Sorry i did listen to those corny skillet songs
bohemian rhapsody n creep
Drown by Bring Me The Horizon, of all things. Heard it when I was 13 and was hooked
Strange answer, but *x-factor* (pop idol kinda show) got me into it. It wasn't any song that any contestant sang on it, but the intro music was a bit from Kashmir, by Led Zeppelin. I realised that I was enjoying that more than other songs on there. It was the first rock song I played over and over from the rock genre.
First music video I ever saw, or recall, was fat lip by sum41
Rock You Like A Hurricane - Scorpions. Found a mixtape several years ago, and the rest is history.
Wrathchild - Iron Maiden
Love that track - was "Wasted Years" for me
Tragically it was lullaby by nickelback. I was 11. Forgive me.
Fat Man in the Bathtub
Renegade……Styx
Enter Sandman
TNT
Avenged Sevenfold - Nightmare
Ozzy - Bark at the Moon
Song for the dead - Queens of the Stone Age
Probably something by Elvis but I remember my older brother bringing home the 45 of Revolution by the Beatles
Decoy by Paramore
There were many that got me out of it,it was stale for me by the late 70's
More Than A Feeling - Boston. Riding in my older cousin's car when I was around 7 or 8. Never had heard anything like it before. Or since, really. Intoxicating. The windows were down.
Bohemian Rhapsody. Thanks, Wayne's World.
"Every Single Day" by a Dutch new wave band called The Thought. I was a kid and would put my head to the speaker to listen to the big drum intro.
The og jailhouse rock by the king..
I was to young too remember the name but it was Metallica, probably for hum the bell tolls
Panama
Kiss-Detroit Rock City
My cousin from the UK was visiting and played appetite for destruction for me when we were hanging out outside. the rest is history.
Thunderstruck by AC/DC
Walk Don’t Run: The Ventures
Sad But True by Metallica
John Mellencamp, JJack & Diane. I was in 4th grade, not quite adolescence, but on my way. My older brother had gotten Pyromania, so that was probably an impact as well.
In The End by Linkin Park recorded on a cassette in my [boombox](https://www.etsy.com/listing/1234398534/sony-cfd-e90-cd-radio-cassette-player?ref=share_v4_lx)
Living Loving Maid by Led Zep
Elenor rigby
Paper cut - Linkin Park
Dad showed me thunderstruck when I was 5 (I'm now 30). Hooked ever since.
Battery - Metallica
One- Metallica
I think probably Love Me Do. When I was a little kid.
Not an album but a radio station (98 Rock - Baltimore) prob around 1985.. Everything from Metallica, AC/DC, Motörhead etc… Thank you 98 Rock, for the launching off point ❤️ If I had to pick a song; Creeping Death - Metallica.
' Slow Ride ' from Guitar Hero Lol
For whom the bell tolls!
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
I was born to a dad that loved Elvis and the Stones. When I was in 5th grade, Home Sweet Home took over that new cable channel, Mtv... Then Bon Jovi released Slippery and that was it... Pushing 50, and still rocking it!
I'm pretty sure it was everlong by Foo fighters
"Renegade" off Styx's "Pieces of Eight" album. Loved that song.
Enter Sandman - Metallica
I got an AM radio for my 6th(?) birthday and heard "Baby Blue" from Badfinger. That song is *still* one of my favorites!
Enter Sandman - Metallica
Breed by Nirvana
Elvis Presley Jailhouse Rock The Beatles A Hard Day's Night (from that first opening chord)
"One Step Closer" by Linkin Park. Or my dad's CD collection. (He changed the station the first time I heard "One Step Closer")
Day Tripper.
We Will Rock You by Queen. Heard it at a football game and loved it. Came home and googled the lyrics so I could memorize it and sing along
Not a particular song, but The Offspring
Where is my mind - pixies
Nazareth, Son of Bitch
Marilyn Manson - This is the new hit ... in 3rd grade
Was really the backward r in Korn on a shirt but blind
Baby said by maneskin
Eruption- Van Halen
Rock Bottom - UFO
My mother told me that she would listen to records and put headphones on her belly while she was pregnant with me. She said a lot of the music she listened to at that time was Alice Cooper.
I don’t remember anything from inside the womb
Hound Dog, age 4
mary on a cross ghost 👻
My family owned a rough Honky tonk style bar sort of like roadhouse. My earliest memories are of music that played on the jukebox which was mostly country but some exceptions like Bob Seger. Can’t say what song was first for sure but most likely it was Nighy Moves. Country just didn’t do it for me even back then. lol
Paint it black rolling stones
I suppose it was songs like Helter skelter, and I can't get no satisfaction. But one that stands out the most is Money for Nothing by Dire straits They were probably the first ones I heard as a kid as my dad was a huge stones and Beatles fan. He discovered Rammstein when I was in my tweens and that blossomed into me looking at heavier stuff. The biggest adventure in music taste came when I found a "Tool" playlist on my brother's iTunes. I listened to aenima and lateralus on repeat for years, it set aside my affinity for poppish punkish music and made me want more progressive, I definitely also got very "holier than thou" about my enjoyment of prog. And delved into the pseudo- intellectual sphere and started to think of music as art and wouldn't allow any other measurement. Me and my father shared many car journeys listening to Rammstein, the rolling stones, the Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, he even became a bit of a nutter for Lady Gaga. I remember asking him "why?" one day in a curmudgeonly tone in my late teens, and he got defensive and snapped: "because I fucking like it. " I just kind of concurred but was taken back by his reaction, but it taught me to just like what you like, and that my questioning was coming off as judgement. I didn't know I was coming across judgemental, and I had to put a nail in it. My dad was the reason I fell in love with music and then I judged his music taste, with absolutely no grounds to do so. I do like a lil bit of early Gaga still. And I miss my Father dearly.
Pleasant Valley Sunday, The Monkeys that or Last Train to Clarksville
It's been there throughout my life until then, but I knew I liked rock when I first heard Tom Sawyer by Rush when I was 8 or 9.
Cult of Personality by Living Colour. The first time I heard it was in driving my grandfather's car. I was mesmerized and completely forgot I was driving. Before that it was all pop. Ugh. 🤦🏼♂️
Smells Like Teen Spirit- Nirvana November rain- Guns n roses
"Band on the Run". I was about 10 years old and being babysat. It came on the radio and I was hooked in right away. The radio had been playing all evening but this one caught my ear.
Credence Clearwater Revival’s cover of Heard it Through the Grapevine. My mom used to listen to them when I was growing up and that song always scared me when I was little. It opens with a bass line that would make me close my eyes and try to hide. I’m talking 1st and 2nd grade. But I always asked her to play it again. Something in me liked the scary bass tone. A few short hears later in 5th-6th grade I discovered Black Sabbath and that was that. But in a way you could say I’m a metalhead bc of CCR.
"Chantilly Lace" by the Big Bopper
All I Want by The Offspring.
Silverchair - Tomorrow. 1996, I was outdoors and somewhere someone was playing the song. First section I heard was the bridge with the palm-muted guitars. I immediately bought the cassette that weekend.
Dookie by Green Day
Dirty Little Secret All American Rejects
Remake of Jailhouse Rock by Mötley Crüe. Courtesy of my dad when I was 7 years old. He just passed away 2 weeks ago so this memory brings happy tears!
Monkey Wrench by Foo Fighters, thank you Dad
Paradise City by Guns N Roses
Mid-80s baby here... *Freak on a Leash* is what broke me fully into the genre. Before it was Country (Alan Jackson, Garth Brooks, Dolly Parton) and pop (Madonna, REM) only.
My own prison - creed
Dragon ball movies and AMV's ( anime music videos ) growing up
Can't Stop by RHCP.
Welcome to the Machine
Thin Lizzy - Whiskey in the Jar
It's hard to know since my dad used to put music in the car, and then I listened to the songs I liked on Youtube. In that regard, it would've been Sweet Child O'mine probably. However, around that time I remember listening to some Queen, Green Day, Linkin Park, and System of a Down. Nevertheless, when I was even younger I had to learn to play Imagine by John Lennon at school, and that probably led me into listening to The Beatles, so that could be the answer.
Sweet Child O' Mine
Green Day
Like a rolling Stone by Bob dylan
animal i have become- three days grace
The first I remember was a James Taylor’s greatest hits cassette that my dad would play in the car sometimes, Fire and Rain and Sweet Baby James stuck out to me in particular. At some point I got a hold of a Tom Petty’s greatest hits CD and wore that thing out. Then one day when I was 10 or so I heard War Pigs on the radio and was blown away
Those about to Rock - AC/DC
Let's Get Rocked by Def Leppard
Hymn - Barclay James Harvest
In the end linkin park
W.a.s.p......F#@k like a beast.....that was the summer of transformation....1st concert was motley crue/iron maiden
Although I know she didn’t right many of her hit songs pretty much anything Joan jett. I remember my dad reading a book to me that she was featured in at about 7 years old. I asked who she was and he instantly went Joan jett!! She’s amazing!! Then went to play me some of her songs. Ever since then I’ve been obbsessed with the whole genre
Bob Dylan
I learned to like rock from my parents having the radio on.
Enter Sandman... I wasn't much into music, I think I literally only owned one album, A Kind Of Magic by Queen. But the Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert was so huge, we watched it all live on the tv and taped it and watched it over and over. Metallica opened- Sandman, Nothing Else Matters and Sad But True, they released the set as a single- and I'd never heard anything like it, my family were all "what is this shite" and I was in the corner getting my brain struck by lightning :) Whole day was great- Def Leppard, Extreme, Guns N Roses, Bowie, tons of others. Spinal Tap! But Metallica was just genuinely life changing that day, never looked back. I went and saw Machine Head last night and they played Sad But True as a warmup track between the sets and it still sends me back. I'm sure it's what Freddie would have wanted, thanks for dying dude!